Small Steps

I read minutes of Friday's meeting of all participants in our manufacturing project, saw corrections from one of my colleagues. I did a little research on what looked like an American supplier of a major product we need only to discover it is a subsidiary of a US corporate giant, alas, and reported on that to the others.

These are the little steps I can take today that are leading to our achieving our goal of manufacturing and having in distribution a thousand of the things we are making right here, right now in New York, once a city with much light industry.

I know from my sixty-three years of life that big changes often result from a series of small steps. I am willing to take these small steps. In fact, this process is very enjoyable so far and it is not at all difficult to make these small steps.

What is lacking here for me is an element of solidarity. We are working closely as a group, but we are not in any way affiliated with others who seek major systemic changes in US manufacturing and the US economy. I think about that. This project may or may not turn out to be a vehicle for solidarity. What it is doing for sure is giving me experience in starting up a project that already is a cottage enterprise and may grow into light industry here in New York. That alone is a lot.